On his way back to the study, Angor glanced at Tree Spirit.
Tree Spirit looked calm, but Angor could see the burning desire in the depths of his eyes.
Apart from gossiping, Tree Spirit's greatest interest was exploring and adventuring. Unfortunately, his main body was confined inside the mirror world, which prevented him from venturing outside. Following Angor to the hidden room was a rare opportunity for him to explore.
Tree Spirit saw Angor preparing a defensive spell and said, "Don't worry about me if there's any danger. I'm just a soul fragment, so I won't be affected even if I die. "
Angor nodded.
"Don't worry too much. If there's any danger, I'll send someone to save you as soon as possible."
Despite Tree Spirit's words, Angor could tell from his tone that he was happy to see Angor's safety. After all, nothing could be considered an adventure if there was no danger involved.
With his personal defenses in place, he began to set up a barrier around the study.
He wasn't only concerned about his own safety. If something dangerous came out of the ruin, it could harm other people as well, so he had to set up a barrier in advance.
Next, Angor called Balba over and told him to keep an eye on the barrier. If the color of the barrier turned darker, Balba was to inform Mushroom Witch immediately and leave the ruin with Papaya and Kudodo.
With that done, Angor turned his attention to the knight armor.
When he placed his hand on the rune to activate it, he and Tree Spirit began to look at each other in the same way. Both of them looked at Tree Spirit with caution and excitement.
Angor had been looking forward to this day ever since he came to this ruin and had a hunch about the hidden room.
What kind of secret was hidden in a room that was purposely hidden by the owner of this ruin?
Was it really just a bedroom?
With the infusion of energy, the repaired magic array on the knight's armor began to emit a faint light. The magic array floated out from the armor and landed on the ground, covering both Angor and Tree Spirit.
Next, Angor's vision went dark for a second. He felt weightless for a second, but everything quickly returned to normal.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw that they were no longer in the bright study room. Instead, he found himself in a dark corridor.
Tree Spirit was standing beside Angor, and he was looking behind him.
He looked back and saw a wall behind him. It was worth mentioning that there was a magic array engraved on the wall, which looked exactly the same as the one on a knight's armor.
"Looks like I don't have to worry about getting back," he muttered and looked forward again.
The corridor looked very deep, but it wasn't completely dark. There were wall lamps made of fluorite on both sides of the wall, emitting a cold blue light. Although the light was not strong, it could still be used for illumination.
"Let me take a look." After Tree Spirit finished speaking, he pointed to the distance, and a leaf with green light appeared out of thin air. With a gust of wind, it drifted into the depths of the corridor.
A few seconds later, Tree Spirit turned his head and said, "Leaf didn't encounter any danger and reached the end smoothly. Not far from the end, there is a closed door. Perhaps that is the bedroom of the owner of the ruins? "
The holographic map of the entrance to the ruin was very clear. The sign above the hidden room was a bedroom. Since there was only one door in front, it was obvious that the bedroom was behind the door.
Tree Spirit didn't find any danger in the corridor, but Angor still moved forward cautiously.
After about a hundred steps, Angor saw the leaf Tree Spirit released earlier. It was floating in front of a familiar door.
The door was made of the same material as the entrance to the ruin. Even the engravings were similar. Clearly, they were built by the same person.
Angor reached out his hand. A pure white phantom limb reached out and gently pushed the door.
The door wasn't locked. It was slowly pushed open by the phantom limb.
When the door was pushed open, both Angor and Tree Spirit looked behind the door at the same time.
It was completely dark. They couldn't see anything.
Angor was about to activate his night vision, but before he could do anything, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of fear.
Angor subconsciously took a step back, which allowed him to dodge a sword slash coming from above.
With a loud clang, the sword light collided with the ground, creating a huge crater and sending a large amount of gravel and dust into the air.
Angor finally saw a knight's longsword coming out from behind the door.
As the longsword came out, a tall silhouette slowly appeared in the darkness.
A person? Angor was surprised. Was he right? Was the owner of the ruin still inside the hidden room?
As Angor raised his guard, the figure in the darkness stepped out of the door.
It was different from what he had imagined. What appeared in front of him was a person wearing a knight's armor.
The armor looked normal just like the outside. The only thing unusual about the knight's longsword was the cold, dark light flowing around it.
Angor didn't know whether the knight was a human or an empty shell. But through the gap between the armor, he saw a faint red light.
Why does this red light look so familiar?
While Angor was still thinking about the red light, the knight swung his greatsword at Angor again.
The knight's attack was unbelievably fast. Dozens of dark sword flashes were released in an instant, which blocked all of Angor's escape routes. Angor tried to use his phantom limbs to touch the sword flashes. They could resist the attack to a certain extent, but they would still be cut off.
The knight's attack was as strong as a wizard's power level.
In just one second, several of Angor's phantom limbs were chopped off.
He could regrow them, but he still needed nightmare aura to do so. His current supply of nightmare aura could keep up, but if the phantom limbs were cut off again in a short time, it would be difficult to regenerate them quickly.
I need to finish this as soon as possible. Angor thought to himself.
The Sword Beheading Knight's weakest point was definitely its armor. Angor was too familiar with the armor. It was made of ordinary materials and could be broken with a light touch.
With that in mind, Angor prepared to attack the knight's body.
But before he could do anything, he felt a force coming from behind him. Angor tried to fight it out of instinct, but he found the force gentle and familiar. It was Tree Spirit's power.
Following the force, Angor was dragged away from the door and back to the middle of the hallway.
Luckily, the knight did not come after him.
Angor turned around and looked at Tree Spirit in confusion. Why did Tree Spirit suddenly pull him away?
Tree Spirit had a strange look on his face. "I saw several parts of the ground suddenly collapsing, and several bottomless dark abyss appeared. At the same time, some pitch-black vines reached out from the abyss and whipped me with thorny whips.
"They were very strong, almost as strong as truth-finder level attacks. One whip was enough to break my body.
"Luckily, I left a leaf at the door. It turned into a substitute and blocked the attack." Tree Spirit's expression grew even more strange. "But as soon as my leaf was killed, the abyss around me disappeared. Then, I saw you waving your illusory limbs in the air. "
Angor already felt strange when he heard Tree Spirit's story. Bottomless abyss? Pitch-Black vines and thorny whips? He did not see anything like that. Otherwise, he would have noticed it already.
Angor even wondered if Tree Spirit was lying.
But then Tree Spirit said he saw Angor waving his phantom limbs at the air? Wasn't Tree Spirit blocking the sword slashes? Why would he wave his limbs at the air?
Tree Spirit noticed the confusion in Angor's eyes. "You're waving your limbs at the air. But I think there's something strange in the air. Your limbs are being chopped off again and again. I couldn't see or sense any danger.
"I couldn't see what kind of danger you were facing, but I did notice something strange. Your phantom limbs would get chopped off as long as they were inside the red light. The ones outside the light were all normal.
"You happened to be inside the red light. I guessed that there might be something wrong with the red light, so I pulled you out."
Angor was even more confused. "Red light? Where is it? "
"It's the red light coming from the door." Tree Spirit saw that Angor was still confused and brought him closer to the door.
This time, they did not approach the door. Instead, they stopped about 20 meters away from it and looked at the door at the end of the corridor.
Angor's pupils shrank when he looked at the door.
The door had indeed been pushed open, but the darkness that he had seen behind the door had disappeared. Now, he was looking at the glowing red door.
The red light from the door even spread to the surrounding walls, making the corridor look like a blood-stained corridor.
There was no knight, abyss, or pitch-black vines. Even the floor and walls that were destroyed by the knight's sword were still intact.
But Angor could sense the consumption of his phantom limbs and nightmare aura. He was sure that his phantom limbs were chopped off. Tree Spirit's words also confirmed this.
Was it a Reality Illusion spell?
Did it mean that Tree Spirit could sense illusions and take real damage at the same time?
But soon, he dismissed the possibility of this happening. He did not know many Reality Illusions, but he knew them well enough to know that they were still illusions. Illusions had their own special rhythm. Angor did not sense any ripples of illusions before, so this was definitely not caused by an illusion.
But if it was not an illusion, then what could it be?
He looked at the faint red light behind the gate and recalled the flash of red light under the knight's mask. It was the same red light, and it looked … familiar.
Suddenly, Angor recalled a scene in his mind. In the distant horizon, there was a giant city that looked like a mirage, and the throne was covered in the red light.
Angor saw this scene when he was at the top of Rainbow Mountain in the ruin under the Astral Pool.
Back then, Zealotry told him that the city was where Nuka's minister was resting. As for the red light, it was a strange light called "Nightmare Light".
At the same time, the red light in his mind overlapped with the red light coming from the gate in the distance.
Their colors were exactly the same.
"Is this … the Light of Nightmare?" Angor muttered to himself as he stared at the gate in the distance.
"Nightmare Light?" Hearing this, Tree Spirit touched his chin and pondered. "In that case, it's really possible. I remember you said that Nightmare Light is red, right? It's the same as the red light Leavis saw when he first entered the ruin.
"When Leavis stepped into the ruin, he saw the red light. Those nightmare creatures hadn't entered the ruin yet."
"Since the red light already existed in the ruin under the Astral Pool, and this ruin has the same origin as the ruin, it makes sense that there's a red light here."
The more Tree Spirit spoke, the more he felt that his guess was correct. Reeves was still in the Astral Pond Ruins, protected by Ness. Over the past few days, Reeves had recounted everything that had happened to him in the ruins, including the tiniest details, without missing a single detail.
According to Leavis, those who entered the ruin with him all encountered the red light. When bathed in the red light, the walls were no longer walls. Instead, they turned into rolling lava. The door was no longer a door. It became an abyss that led to the dead. Even the ordinary paintings and statues changed. The creatures in the paintings crawled out of the plane, and the statues opened their scarlet eyes.
Even the ground they walked on began to emit smoke for no reason, which would drag them to an unknown world.
This point was simply too fitting for the previous situation.
When Tree Spirit was bathed in the red light, dark vines crawled out of the ground and attacked Tree Spirit.
When Angor was bathed in the red light, the door was filled with darkness as knights swung their swords.
They were clearly together at the moment, but they had encountered two completely different situations. This was exactly the same as what Reeves had said.
"It must be Nightmare Light," Tree Spirit said confidently.
Angor also thought about what happened to Leavis, and he could tell that the red light in the distance was the Nightmare Light that attracted the nightmare creatures like a flock of ducks.
But now, they were faced with another problem.
Now that he knew about the Light of Nightmare, how should he deal with it?
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